This Weekend: A Coalition Meets in Chicago to Reform the Reformers
Join us in Chicago this weekend! Here are a variety of resources gathered by Robin Hiller on the upcoming Network for Public Education conference this weekend:
http://catalyst-chicago.org/2015/04/coalition-to-reform-ed-reform-holding-national-conference-in-chicago/
http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/03/188068/growing-progressive-movement-save-public-education
http://labornotes.org/2015/04/teachers-compare-notes
http://www.coreteachers.org/event/network-for-public-education-conference-chicago-day-1/
http://chicago.eventful.com/events/network-public-education-2015-annual-conference-/E0-001-079157782-7
http://hydeparkcac.blogspot.com/2015/03/2015-national-conference-of-network-for.html
http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2015/04/come-learn-about-threats-to-student.html
http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/03/188058/when-will-progressives-defend-public-education
http://phennd.org/update/network-for-public-educations-second-annual-conference/
http://www.livingindialogue.com/npe-conference-comes-chicago/
http://ourfuture.org/20150409/why-populist-progressives-must-embrace-the-education-spring
http://educationopportunitynetwork.org/3262015-revisiting-a-progressive-education-agenda/
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/29/growing-progressive-movement-save-public-education
http://www.ecepolicymatters.com/calendar
Do you want to learn how to reform the reformers? Julian Vasquez Heilig explains why it is urgent to reform the current wave of failed reforms in this article in Catalyst-Chicago:
The predominance of the data and evidence is clear: School “reformers” have failed spectacularly in Chicago and elsewhere over the past decade. Politicians and corporate interests have pressed for failing policies that have created an unprecedented effort to privately control public education by demonizing teachers, undermining the democratic role of parents, closing schools and reinventing public schools as testing factories.
Education policies promoting private control and profit in education have continued unabated with support from Democrats and Republicans alike. Claiming to be dedicated to making children “college and career ready,” these corporate entities, with the help of elected and appointed officials at the national, state and local level, are destroying the very institutions that should be dedicated to…
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